Veronica Stallwood

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Veronica Stallwood (born in London around 1939 ) is an English writer .

Life

Veronica Stallwood was born in south London and spent part of her early school years in boarding schools. Her father worked for the Foreign Minister in the Middle East, and her mother followed him after the Second World War. At the age of ten, around 1949, she moved to Athens, where for two years the entire family - in addition to her parents and her older brother Michael - lived under one roof for the first time. Her parents then moved with her to Lebanon, where she attended a French monastery school between the ages of 12 and 15.

In her early twenties she worked as a secretary in an advertising agency in London. A nine-year marriage followed at the age of 23, from which two children arose and which was largely lived abroad. At the age of 32, Stallwood left her husband and moved with their two children from Belgium to England. Within six weeks she was working full-time with a publishing company from the United States, which was just opening its European headquarters in Oxford. She later worked in the famous Bodleian Library , the Oxford University Library and various college libraries, among others .

In 2005 she moved to Charlbury , a civil parish in Oxfordshire . At Oxford Brookes University she was part of a lecturer on a creative writing course.

Career

Her first two contemporary novels were published in 1988 and 1989 by Robert Hale - under the pseudonym "Kate Ivory".

Her central work, however, is the "Kate Ivory" crime novel series , whose plot takes place in the Oxford universities and whose main character is the writer Kate Ivory. The first novel was published in 1993, the 14th and last in 2011. Unlike before, there was no printed edition, only distribution via Amazon and the Kindle as a reading device.

In fact, Stallwood made her debut under her own name a year before her first Kate Ivory novel with the Oxford novel "Deathspell". In 1999 "The Rainbow Sign" was released, only the second work outside of other crime novels outside the Kate Ivory series. In the book, Stallwood processes and reflects on her childhood experiences in Lebanon.

Works

Kate Ivory series

  • Murder in Oxford. Kate Ivory's first case ("Death on the Oxford Box"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2004, ISBN 3-404-15138-0 .
  • Last Exit Oxford, A Kate Ivory Crime ("Oxford Exit"). Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2005, ISBN 3-404-15339-1 .
  • Tomorrow Oxford will mourn. A Kate Ivory novel ("Oxford Mourning"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-404-15428-2 .
  • Trouble on Oxford. A Kate Ivory crime thriller ("Oxford Case"). Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-404-15532-7 .
  • No going back to Oxford. A Kate Ivory thriller ("Oxford Knot"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-404-15625-2 .
  • Escape from Oxford. A Kate Ivory thriller ("Oxford Blue"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-404-15684-9 .
  • Silent night in Oxford. A Kate Ivory thriller ("Oxford Shift"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-404-15764-8 .
  • Shadows over Oxford. A Kate Ivory thriller ("Oxford Shadows"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-15885-0 .
  • Bad game in Oxford. A Kate Ivory thriller ("Oxford Double"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-15943-7 .
  • Oxford's dead never rest. A Kate Ivory thriller ("Oxford Proof"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-16317-5 .
  • Death comes swiftly in Oxford. A Kate Ivory thriller ("Oxford Remains"). Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-404-16466-0 .
  • Fog over Oxford. A Kate Ivory thriller ("Oxford Menace"). Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-404-16059-4 .
  • Rest gently in Oxford. A Kate Ivory thriller ("Oxford Letters"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-404-16548-3 .
  • Oxford terminus. Kate Ivory's last case ("Oxford Ransom"). Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-404-16743-2 .

Others

  • 1992: Deathspell
  • 1999: The Rainbow Sign

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f mMchele Nayman: 'Outsider who found a niche'. In: oxfordtimes.co.uk. May 8, 2006, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Publishing News - Police visit Publishing! In: publishing.brookes.ac.uk. March 29, 2007, accessed November 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Mike Ripley: GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER # 60 NOVEMBER 2011. In: shotsmag.co.uk. November 1, 2011, accessed November 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ kaliber .38: Krimi-Navigator - Series Figures - Figures I. In: kaliber38.de. Retrieved November 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stallwood, Veronica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH London